Home Poker Chip Buying Guide

*Last edited by FyrFytr998 on Tue, 11 Mar 2008, 8:56pm; edited 1 time in total*

This post is made for those people who are interested in purchasing a set of Poker Chips for home games. And usually the first thing people do is go to a poker site to ask the question: WHAT TYPE OF CHIPS SHOULD I BUY?

Well the first thing anyone should do is a little research. Here's a site that reviews various Poker Chips that are currently on the market today. From custom clays to plastic composites. Weight and feel is all a matter of personal taste.

Home Poker Tourney.com

Once you have done a little research. The next question you should answer yourself is how many chips do I need? My suggestion is that any good poker set will have at least 400 chips, with 500 being the best for games that are up to 10 people. Anymore than 10 and you should just go with 1,000 and call it a day. That way you'll have more than enough for tourney of 20 to 25 players. You always want to be able to color up (take out the smaller denominations) as the blinds get bigger. It is a real time saver. And you usually want three to four colors of chips. The breakdown of colors is dependent on your blind structure. The majority of your chips should be in the lower denominations though.

Now comes the important question to ask yourself. How much am I willing to spend? This is mainly dependent on you and your financial situation. I make almost 80k a year, but would be hard pressed to drop $700 to $800 for custom clay chips. My wife would slay me. (Not that I don't plan to do it one day though.) And there are any number of price points that can be met for a particular set of chips. I should know I'm on my third set of chips. Which leads me to the point. Don't skimp just for the sake of having chips. If that's the case, then go to Wal-Mart and buy the cheapo chips until you can get the chips you know you'll want for your permanent set. Chips are like your car. People buy chips that reflect their own personal sense of style. I went from Hoyle plastic, to 11.5g Dice, to Las Vegas Premiere Chips. And I still don't feel like I have "My" chips. There are some people who buy generic chips and have custom labels printed for them (I'm included in that bunch Razz

). Which I must say is a less expensive way to have customized chips. Although it's a pain to affix all the labels yourself.

Finally, where do I buy these chips? Well that's the hardest part of it all. There are so many places to choose from. Most people start with Ebay. That is probably where you can get chips for the least amount of money. But the bidding process can be bothersome to people. So they opt for online merchants. Well truthfully, most places are within nickels and dimes of each others prices. Again at the link noted above. You can find reputable vendors to which to make your purchase. Just always remember, you get what you pay for. The more I think about it, the more I think my wife is just gonna have to deal with my wanton desire for customized Poker Chips. So happy shopping, and I hoped this helped answer some questions you might have about home Poker Chips.

Please feel free to PM me if you have a question I did not cover in this guide. Cheers. Razz

Here's a chip calculator you can play around with:

www.homepokertour.com/chip_calculator.php

For all the information you'll ever need, go to

www.chiptalk.net

Also - the most popular fully customizable clay chips are usually bought from:

www.pokerchips.com

You can pick your chip color, edgespots, get a custom graphic put on there. They made the chips for the Rounders movie.

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